Birthday Present Office
Luxury Hotel and Cliveden House
For my birthday, at the end of last year, the kids bought me a night's stay in a luxury Hotel plus a ticket to visit Cliveden House in Buckinghamshire . . . and the weekend has finally arrived! 😁
Image of Cliveden House by Len Williams
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Fortunately we set off early and arrived at Cliveden just before 11.00 because by 2.30 it was raining heavily.
However, we were able to walk around the amazing gardens, (photos to come later) before it got too bad. Then we had coffee and cake about 3.00 and afterwards made our way to the hotel which is where I am writing this post.
Grovefield House used to be the country retreat of the Fuller family who made a fortune in the brewing industry.
Here's a the view from the room plus the view on the table! 😁
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And here I am, writing this blog post, #workingat Grovefield House.
John has just popped out to get me some Proseco and snacks which partly explains why I look so happy! 😁
@gillianpearce, is it your birthday today? or did my bad English fail me? :(
Not today, no @madlenfox. It was last year. New Year's even in fact! 😊
@gillianpearce, thank you for this explanation, now I will know :)
You are welcome of course @madlenfox! 😊
Okay, so Prosecco is wine?
The burning question of course is, while I'm waiting to see the other photos of this place—what about the WiFi? :)
Looks like you had a great time, in spite of the rain.
Prosecco is fizzy white wine. All the rage here and I'm very partial to it @glenabrethsen!
Wifi is excellent.
Only downside is screaming/crying child in next door room. Please, please, please don't let them wake up in the middle of the night or at the crack of dawn. I'm a poor sleeper at the nest of times. I've got no chance if the racket gets repeated.
And, on that note, I'm off to bed. 💤
A child, staying at a luxury hotel?! I've only been to one hotel I would consider luxurious, and I was surprised to see the two or three families that we came across there. I couldn't have imagined affording such a place, even at the deep discounted prices we got for our room (over 80% at current rent costs) when our two boys were young. I felt fortunate just to pay plane tickets to get them down to Mexico so they could visit with family, let alone set them up in luxury. Oh, well.
I wish you good sleeping, even if you don't see this until tomorrow. :) We'll be celebrating Mother's Day here. Looks like you already did, otherwise I would wish you a happy one of those, too. :)
Well, the child didn't wake up again @glenalbrethsen but I had a very poor night. The soundproofing here is bad. Probably only had a few hours sleep total. But hey, ho. It's another day and we're going back to Cliveden House after breakfast.
Although it's not Mother's Day here I will still feel close to the kids today since they bought me this weekend as a gift and they've been texting me to find out how it's going.
Which reminds me, I still haven't written my Mother's Day post. It was back in March and I took photographs for it but I never got round to it. As I've said, writing is not one of my favourite things and it takes me ages.
That post I wrote yesterday about my day, took nearly two hours to compile and there wasn't a huge amount of text in it!!!
So, apparently the term luxury hotel does not guarantee things that I would consider to be fairly rudimentary, like not hearing what's happening next door. That I've experienced at a Motel 6 for $30 a night back in the day. Well, I'm sorry to hear about that particular rough night. I hope the stay got better. I know I have to catch up to the rest of the post(s) here as fast as I can. Takes me a while to work through everything once I get back from Sunday off.
All we can do is all we can do, right? And then move on to the next post and comment, hoping things get a little faster along the way.
It wasn't too bad @glenalbrethsen. I'm used to not being able to sleep and everything else was great.
I tend not to play catch up with posts when I get behind as it starts to get stressful and not fun. So some posts I would normally read from the weekend, for example, I just kipped over yesterday.
The longer I'm here the more comfortable I'm getting with not reading everything I should, ditto for commenting. I do make replying to comments my first priority though. After that I simply run out of time sometimes.
As it was, on Sunday, I still ended going to bed past midnight and again, yesterday just before midnight. So I still have room to improve. This week it is back to try to go to bed at ten so I can read for a while. 😊
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